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D. H. & J. H. PAYNE-- Suspension. Clothes Line Pulley.

No. 236,076. Patented Dec.'28,1880.

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DAVID H. PAYNE AND JEROME H. PAYNE, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

SUSPENSION CLOTHES-LINE PULLEY.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 236,076, dated December 28, 1880. Application filed July 17, 1880. (Model) T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID H. PAYNE and JEROME H. PAYNE, of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Suspension Clothes-Line Pulley, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists in the improvement of clothes-line pulleys by combining rollers and a lower ring, as hereinafter described.

Figure l is an elevation of the pulley, partly in section and with parts broken away to exhibit other parts. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the disk; B B, the lower curved arms, provided with terminal eyes I) b,- O O, the upward-projecting arms, provided with terminal eyes 0 c, and D D the rings or flanges passing through the eyes b c of the respective arms B O.

The disk A has a hole, a, bored vertically through its center, and the pulley is suspended in a horizontal position by a bent rod, E, which passes through the hole a, and is held therein by the nut at below the disk A and the washer f above the said disk A.

By the upward, downward, and outward projection of the arms B O a groove or throat, F, is formed about the center of the pulley, and in this groove or throat F the bight ofthe clothes-line is designed to rest.

The lower ring or flange, D, has its opposite ends respectively mortised and tenoned, as shown at g h, and is made of spring wire or rod, so that said ends interlock, as shown, but can be drawn apart at will.

It has been found when the line containing clothes is pulled around the pulley on which this is an improvement that sometimes the wet clothes would cling to the lower ring or flange of the pulley with a tendency to draw up into the throat, and thereby bring a considerable strain upon the pulley and interfere with the easy rendering of the line. To remedy this defect we string on the ring or flange By connecting the rings or flanges D D with I the arms B O, as shown, amuch stronger and more durable pulley is made than when the arms and rings were joined together with solder.

. Should a roller, G, break, a new one can be put in its place by simply springing the ends of the ring or flange D apart.

The curves of the lower arms, B B, tend to keep the line (not shown) from slipping down from the pulley; but should the line, because of its slackness or because of the weight of clothes upon it, tend to slip downward, the said line will be checked and held up by the lower ring or flange, D, andits rollers Gr, that project beyond the arms B B at their interspaces.

This pulley may be madein two parts united at the center, or be made in a single casting. In the present instance itis made in two parts or sections, that are united at their bases, as shown, by screws, rivets, or other convenient device, m.

Havingthus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a suspension clothes-line pulley, the combination, with the lower ring or flange, D, of the rollers G, substantially as herein shown, and for the purpose described.

DAVID HENRY PAYNE. J EBOME HAMILTON PAYNE.

Witnesses:

J N0. H. OBRIEN, RoBcr. Enw. GARDEN. 

